“Terms in standard form contracts between bank and customer providing for relevant charges were not exempt from assessment as to fairness under reg 6 of the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999.”

WLR Daily, 25th April 2008

Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.

“Evidence obtained during ‘safety’ interviews conducted with a defendant under the provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000 was admissible at his subsequent trial subject to the ordinary principles governing a fair trial, and the over-arching provisions in s 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.”

“The cost of the Labour deputy leadership contest threatened to bring further embarrassment for the government today as it emerged that another cabinet minister has been reprimanded over an illegal donation.”

“In his long history of legal calamity, David Irving has confronted and lost to courtroom adversaries from the publisher Penguin, to a British Second World War convoy commander, to the Austrian state. To that list can now be added Jennie Allen, the 60-year-old owner of a B&B in the genteel London suburb of Kew.”